Chronicling over forty years of changes in African-American popular culture, the Regal Theatre (1928-1968) was the largest movie-stage-show venue ever constructed for a Black community. Semmes reveals the political, economic and business realities of cultural production and the institutional inequalities that circumscribed Black life. CLOVIS E. SEMMES is Professor of Black Studies and Sociology and Director of Black Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Professor Emeritus of African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University, USA. INDICE: The Opening: Separate but Equal - The Depression Years: Privilege in the Marketplace - Black Stewardship - The End of Monopoly and the End of Swing - The Decline of Commercial Segregation and the Transition to IndependenceRebirth - Black Ownership The - Closing of the Palace Retrospect - Lessons Learned
- ISBN: 978-0-230-11315-2
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 18/03/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido